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The opening still gives me chills. A few seconds of a frenzied guitar, abruptly stopped by a slamming door. A hushed choir and a church organ give way to what sounds like an invocation. “Life is a mystery Everyone must stand alone I hear you call my name And it feels like home“ Madonna’s…

Happy 30th to masterpiece ‘Like a Prayer’! For this celebration Warner Music have a special 30th anniversary edition available through online streaming services (please see widgets). Unfortunately there is no physical remaster of this album out (yet), which is long overdue! We have added this rare Dutch WEA promotional brochure to the Like a Prayer…

As 1989 began, there was no question that Madonna was already a decade-defining superstar. But no one knew if she, like Bee Gees to the ‘70s or Beach Boys to the ‘60s, would prove a decade-constricted artist whose relevance would wane as a new decade turned over. Like a Prayer, the magnum opus of her first…

If released in 2019, Madonna‘s “Like A Prayer” video would have ignited a different controversy than the one it stirred up in 1989. Throughout the clip, broadcast in advance of the album of the same name, the singer dances in a field of burning crosses, the instantly and viscerally recognizable motif of the Ku Klux Klan.…

Provocative and – at the time – shocking, Madonna’s fourth album ‘Like A Prayer’ rocked the establishment, and set a new template for self-empowered women in pop. The Blond Ambition world tour that followed, meanwhile, changed the face of live music forever. On the 30th anniversary of the album’s release, El Hunt tells the story Some albums…

Hans decided to spent the night in front of a local record store to camp out and be the first to be Madonna’s brand new album ‘Like a Prayer’ back in March 1989. There had been a load of negative publicity in Dutch press regarding the Like a Prayer video and Pepsi withdrawing their…